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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday he’ll stand by his offer to be extradited to the United States — as long as convicted leaker Chelsea Manning is released and his due process rights are protected.

Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012 to avoid rape allegations in Sweden, had gone back on his pledge to come to the US following Manning’s commutation — but now said he’s OK with coming to America.

“I stand by everything I said including the offer to go to the United States if Chelsea Manning’s sentence was commuted,” Assange said in a live online audio news conference. “It’s not going to be commuted (until) May. We can have many discussions to that point.”

Manning is expected to be released in May.

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